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The Audience Problem and the Film-as-Art Ideology
Last night’s Sipat Film School’s roundtable on Piracy has turned into something else on the sidelines. Discussion over the classroom chat has turned towards the relatively old debate between “mainstream vs indie” and how it is the audience’s fault that more “relevant” films are not being appreciated. For long that I’ve been around cinephilia, or…
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General Notes On Film Piracy
For Ate Ligaya and the mighty pirates of Quiapo cinematheque who educated me about cinema more than any teachers can. Talks about Film Piracy have often been stumped by mere legalism. Ever since the beginnings of the internet, this has been the case, not just for cinema, but all the other objects that can…
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Para kay Chris (repost)
Itong post na to ay originally nasa Kawts Kamote. Published noong November 2, 2014. Bago tong araw na to, binalikan ko yung mga lumang post ng lumang blog. Naalala ko kasi si Chris Fajardo, isang kaibigan na wala na ngayon. Sa Titus Brandsma ko pa nakilala si Chris non, panahon na una pa lang akong…
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Kalat-kalat na Tala tungkol sa Piratahang Pilipino
Intended tong Blogpost na to sa pag-sagot ng partikular question sa CuriousCat: “ako lang ba o parang ang shit ng scene group dito sa pilipinas? kung di puro webrip, puro camrip. di rin nagrerelease ng raw release. walang 0-day. meron bang social implications bakit ganun?” Siguro magandang okasyon to para i-address ko na yung limitadong…
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The Aesthetics of Confinement
The title is misleading, or perhaps tautological. Essentially, aesthetics has always been dependent on a certain sense of confinement. Sensual experiences depend more on the space that surrounds us, not the ones we occupy. What we see in front of us, what our ears capture, what can be smelled from meters away, etc. Cinema, if…
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Non-Blind Items for a Safe Quarantine
Repeating some old ideas which still make sense, even today. Below are unorganized notes of thoughts I’ve been trying to organize for days now. It still came up unorganized and I apologize for it. Honorary fathers are often times weird. Especially, Godfathers. Bourgeois history is often concerned with founders, or, Godfathers. Whether or not the…
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Theses on Terrorist Cinema
The greatest invention of the 21st century is not the iPhone, but the terrorist. Of course, the “terrorist” as a concept has been around for a long time. But it is only recently that terrorism has been translated materially (as an ideological apparatus). Terrorism is a discourse of the state. Terrorism as an ideology necessarily…
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Film and Ideology
This note is something I used for my culminating lecture on an Introduction to Film subject I handled last semester. I apologize for the lack of citation, but I have noted from who does the ideas I mentioned came from. The semester started by looking into the Feature-Length Film as our object of study, with…
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Notes on Audience-Taste, Education and Capture
Disclaimer: This convoluted essay is a product of me processing recent events and my writing projects in Media Studies. But just because this is related to a school project, doesn’t mean I do not take these seriously. In fact, I’m probably more serious about this now more than ever. Writing these down to at least…
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Between Representation and Visualization
Concerns over “proper” representation has been hot cake since liberal academics weaponized semiotics away from its concern over information and/or data towards a less scientific concern for sentimentalism. There really isn’t any contradiction between the two before this weaponization happened. However, more recent developments on the production of images makes looking at visualization more urgent…